Candidate Biography:

In 1860, Welty served as a pallbearer at the funeral of Assemblyman John C. Bell.

Source: Legislative Guide... of all the State Officers and Members of the Legislature... by Kean & Dudley (H.S. Crocker and Co.; 1871)Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)